Morocco Grand Prix

Morocco Grand Prix

Circuit d'Ain-Diab
Route data
Main sponsor:	none
in the racing calendar:	1958
Route length:	7.618 km
Race length:	403.754 km in 53 laps
Records
Lap record:	2: 22.5 ( 1958 , Stirling Moss , Vanwall )
Lap record qualification:	2: 23.1 ( 1958 , Mike Hawthorn , Ferrari )
Most wins:	Stirling Moss (1)
Most Poles:	Mike Hawthorn (1)

The Morocco Grand Prix was held seven times between 1932 and 1958. Only once, in 1958 on the Circuit d'Ain-Diab near the city of Casablanca , was the Grand Prix part of the Formula 1 World Championship .

history

From 1925 to 1928 the Morocco Grand Prix was held in Casablanca; the official name for it was the Casablanca Grand Prix .

From 1930 (with the exception of 1933) similar races were held on the new Anfa race track (the official name was now Anfa Grand Prix ) and cost Bruno d'Harcourt his life in one of the training runs. All winners of these sports car races were either French or Monegasque .

After no races were run between 1935 and 1953, the 1954 Grand Prix returned again as a sports car race near the city of Agadir . This time the Italian Giuseppe Farina won and broke the dominance of the French drivers at the Grand Prix of Morocco for the first time.

At Ain-Diab, near Casablanca, a new track was built for the 1957 World Cup . A race took place, but it was not counted as a World Championship run .

formula 1

The following year, an official World Championship race was held on October 19, which was overshadowed by the fatal accident of Vanwall driver Stuart Lewis-Evans (runner-up in the 1957 race). Lewis-Evans died in a London hospital after suffering a serious accident on the dusty route. As the overall winner of the only official Formula 1 Grand Prix of Morocco, the Briton went Stirling Moss in the Motorsport - annals one.

Results

Edition	year	route	class	winner	Second	Third	Pole position	Fastest lap
1	1932	Start	TW	Marcel Lehoux ( Bugatti )	Philippe Étancelin ( Alfa Romeo )	Stanisław Czaykowski ( Bugatti )	Jean-Pierre Wimille ( Bugatti )	Jean-Pierre Wimille ( Bugatti )
	1933	not a Grand Prix of Morocco
2	1934	Start	TW	Louis Chiron ( Alfa Romeo )	Philippe Étancelin ( Bugatti )	Marcel Lehoux ( Alfa Romeo )	Marcel Lehoux ( Alfa Romeo )	Louis Chiron ( Alfa Romeo )
	1935 to 1953	not a Grand Prix of Morocco
3	1954	Agadir	SW	Giuseppe Farina ( Ferrari )	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown
4th	1955	Agadir	SW	Mike Sparken ( Ferrari )	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown
5	1956	Agadir	SW	Maurice Trintignant ( Ferrari )	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown
6th	1957	Ain-Diab	F1	Jean Behra ( Maserati )	Stuart Lewis-Evans ( Vanwall )	Maurice Trintignant ( BRM )	Tony Brooks ( Vanwall )	Juan Manuel Fangio ( Maserati )
7th	1958	Ain-Diab	F1	Stirling Moss ( Vanwall )	Mike Hawthorn ( Ferrari )	Phil Hill ( Ferrari )	Mike Hawthorn ( Ferrari )	Stirling Moss ( Vanwall )

Legend
abbreviation	class	comment
F1	formula 1	Formula 1 World Championship from 1950
F2	Formula 2
FL	Formula libre	Vehicle class usually advertised by the organizer
SW	Sports car
TW	Touring car
GP	Grand Prix vehicles
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	Entries with a light red background were not runs for the automobile or Formula 1 world championship.
	Entries with a yellow background were runs for the European Championship .